“What kind of a dog are we getting, and when are we getting it?”

The Really: The President-Elect's kids know how to get things done.

So they slipped the question to George Stephanopoulos on his political talk forum This Week and the President was FORCED to answer.

Some problems are easier to solve than others: and yes, the breed of the above The Portugeuse Water Hound is one of the finalists -- though maybe not this one.

Obama Eats Sno-Cones With Children While World Falls Apart

The Really: They are not sno-cones. It is called "shave" as in "shaved ice" which is a very different treat from a sno-cone.

Each part of our great land has its own fun food treat and each is as distinct as gelato is from ice cream. Here is the skinny on "shave" which as right wing pundits will point out, Obama is enjoying as the world falls into the flames of one of Nostrodamus' predictions.

Hillary Clinton Accepts Post As Secretary Of State

The Really: It was really the right move for Hillary to eat some of her words and accept the job.

What do we mean by eating her words? Well, it was less then 6 months ago that Hillary was telling us that Obama was too immature and unqualified to be President of the United States and now she works for that unqualified President Elect! Go figure.

As I told a friend earlier this week, I hope no one in NY got too attached to her because Hillary has two words for New Yorkers, "I'm Gone!"

Karl Rove Declares Obama Presidency A Complete Failure

The Really: Rove attributes the economic collapse to the complete failure of the Obama administration.

Karl? He isn't the President. Your looking-glass world has come to an end. Please go away. Thank you.

Some election defeats can be measured arithmetically, by lost votes and seats. But what befell Republicans on 4 November has the feel of a Götterdämmerung. Suddenly Ronald Reagan, the party's patron saint during a generation of conservative dominance in America, is a figure from a remote and vanished past. Of George W Bush, once seen as Reagan's heir, no more need be said. As for Karl Rove, aka "Bush's Brain" and once touted as architect of a boundless Republican future, he is now to political strategizing what Alan Greenspan is to central banking.

The Independent

The Not So Political Truth About Rahm

The Really: Not that there is anything really wrong with it, but its just a little tid bit we thought we would share.

Taken directly from a Rolling Stone Article: Click the link to read the whole article.
When Rahm was a boy, his mother forced him to take ballet lessons, and he threw himself into it with the same intensity he would later bring to politics, winning a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet. Friends jokingly theorize that his toughness is actually an outgrowth of being a ballet dancer: With that sort of thing on your resume, you had better be ready to fight if you hope to survive in Chicago politics. "The guy had been a ballet dancer in college," says Bruce Reed, "yet grown men lived in mortal fear of what he might do to them if they couldn't get the answer he wanted."

The New Gentleman From Hope

The Really: It will not be easy but this is the right man for this difficult time. It really is okay to vote for Obama.

The eight years of Rovian politics (politics based on fear and the basest of the base instincts of the American people) and the incompetence of the Bush adminstrations old boy network (good years for the monetary elite but very bad for the regular Joe) could reduce words like "hope" to the ash heap of history.

Reaganomics always seemed like a good idea for the military-industrial-Wall Street complex but that is not where we live and never was. As salaries and benefits went by the wayside in increments to add a few points to the bottom line and an entire country's desire to possess shoddy sparkly goods became "religious" the basic principles of what makes America great were lost. An HDTV is not freedom; shouting USA for no particular reason is not patriotism; holding political power as an end to itself is not American; winning the war in Iraq--whatever that means--was not some sacred mission.

The sin's of the Father's Founder's were known to them. They doubted the Republic could last with slavery. The Civil War was fought a century and a half ago and yet racism still exists. Yet, today, America will elect an African-American man to be their leader. There is a boldness here which gives one hope. It will not be the same old thing.

No it will not be easy. But what is "hope" except having a chance. What is the dream of America except an essential fairness.

Obama Wins... In Dixville Notch N.H.

The Really: What does this really mean?

Absolutely nothing and possibly everything... In a land slide victory, Barack Obama crushed his opponent John McCain by a tally of 15 to 6 in Dixville Notch, N.H. and 17 to 10 in Hart's Location, N.H.. For more on these results click here. Will this small victory sow the seeds for a much larger one today? Stay tuned to the only place for pundit free coverage of the 2008 Election, BlogReally.com!

BlogReally's Top Ten Reasons Barack Obama Will Be Our Next President

The Really: Top Ten Reasons Why Barack Obama Will REALLY Be Our Next President

10. Barack Obama probably lies a little bit less then John McCain.

9. Even Republicans are scared of what Sarah Palin might do if she were President.

8. John McCain said in a Town Hall Meeting last month "My fellow Terrorists" (Freudian slip perhaps...?)

7. 1/2 Black men are less scary then 72 year old white men with P.T.S.D. even when their middle name is Hussein.

6. Republicans have taken a note out of the Democrats book and royally screwed up an election they could have won easily.

5. If a call comes in at 3AM to the White House, who do you think will actually be able to wake up and function? DUH

4. If you thought the Rodney King Riots were bad...

3. Even my 91 year old, white as rice, raised in the segregated south and occasionally calls a black person ...... Grandma is voting for Barack.

2. Sarah Palin would miss her view of Russia too much and move the US Capitol to Wasilla, Alaska

and last but not least....

1. Who could resist saying they voted for "THAT ONE"

Again And Again And Again And Again...

The Really: Is it me or are we really hearing the same two speeches from the same two candidates for the past 30 days...? Can I get an Amen?

Obama Admits He Was A Marxist In Kindergarten

The Really: Obama is a Marxist.

At a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina today, Barack Obama directly addressed McCain and Palin accusations that he is a Marxist or a socialist. Yes, Obama intoned, "I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich at school."

BlogReally has been perplexed why crowds of struggling 40K a year people at McCain-Palin rallies boo at a sharing of the wealth. The wealth would be shared with them!!! And if they don't need it, send it our way!!!!!

I'd Like To Buy The World A Pepsi?

The Really: More coincidence?

The clever one-worlders at Pepsico have finally figured a way to defeat Coke in the: "I would Like To Buy The World A Coke" feel goodness department. Of course. Change your logo to the future one-world President Of The United States campaign logo!

Ashley Todd: Poster Girl Of McCain Campaign Desperation

The Really: A McCain campaign worker in Pittsburgh made up a racially based robbery story when saying her mugger was an Obama supporter.

Now admits it isn't true.

Any of it.

Levels of desperation are seen all over the McCain campaign. Campaign heads are warring, workers are making up incredible stories (and getting arrested for it); all that seems to be left is voter supression. The Obama campaign and the DNC seem very, very ready to deal with Republican dirty tricks. You want to know why? Because people want a change.

GOP Says Obama Has Already Won Election

The Really: Has the GOP really proclaimed that the 2008 Presidential Election winner is Barack Obama?

In a recent television ad launched by the Republican Party there seems to be an admission of loss to the Democrats in the Presidential Election. The ad goes on to say that the GOP and its constituents need to concentrate on election races they can win so that the Democrats don't have a full House of Representatives, Senate, and White House.

Is this the beginning of the end for the GOP? Will the Democrats turn the U.S. into an evil Socialist country? Tune in tomorrow for the next episode of "As The Election Turns..."

Obama Up 10 Points In Polls... Or Is He?

The Really: Is Senator Barack Obama really this close to sealing up the 2008 Presidential Election or is this just another Democratic blunder waiting to happen?

Depending on the channel (CNN, FOX, MSNBC) or the Poll (AP, CNN/ABC. NY Times), Senator Barack Obama is up 10 points or only 1. Personally, I don't believe in polls. Polls, just like the humans who conduct them, are inherently flawed. I will know who won the election when the other guy has called in and conceded the election. Even then I will still be suspicious but I will at least feel like I can stop watching the news 25 hours a day.

It's crazy. I know that when I turn on the TV I will see the same thing I saw that morning and even a week ago. I will hear pro this and con that on everything they can think of. Yet, I still turn on that TV and fall asleep to it. I ask myself, what am I waiting for? Do I really expect to hear something different? No, I am just a plain old addict, what can I say... So instead of fighting it, I will overdose on it until the cows come home on November 5th.

Today I dropped my mail-in ballot in the mailbox. It felt good to vote for something and someone I believed in. All I will say is that I hope enough of the Electorial College feels the same as I do. It should be interesting to say the least.

Old Fashioned Mudslinging Shows Just How Old Republicans Are

The Really: Robocalls, mudslinging, six-packs and the politics of fear still work?

McCain seems old. Physically and intellectually. The tactics are from old campaigns and Army-McCarthy hearings. This may be a tactic to solidify the "old" vote but it may be falling on deaf ears. And now, Obama is a socialist? Is he?

What do the socialists say?

Greg Pason, National Secretary of the Socialist Party USA: “Barack Obama's programs are not socialist. The vast majority of his proposals are anti-worker (or he might say ‘pro-business’). His health care proposals are more to save the for-profit insurance industry and do not have the goal of ending for-profit insurance. He has refused to support a Senate version of HR676, which would create a single-payer program (not socialist but much better than we have, and [which has] the support of labor and community organizations across the US). Many of his other economic proposals are pro-corporate.A socialist program (even a reformist one) would not be a program that props up capitalism when it fails, but one that transforms the economy. None of Senator Obama's proposals do that. Senator Obama’s tax plan is regressive and even less ‘progressive’ than programs put forward under such conservative administrations like the one of Richard Nixon.”

We will not need to get out our copy of Red Dawn --and view it for instructions-- just yet it seems.

2008 Election: The Most Amazing Race

The Really: Is this 2008 Presidential Election really this important?

In a word, Yes...

I have not been around for many elections, but in my lifetime none have captured me, my country or the world for that matter like this one has. There seems to be so much at stake this time. The War on Terror, the economy is in shambles and the very real possibility of appointing the next 2 Supreme Court Justices during the next 4 years. The difference between this election and others is that these are real issues this time and we are going to need a super hero to fix them. The issues the candidates are debating about are make or break issues right now. In the past, candidates would talk about health care or social security maybe raising or not raising taxes. That is great and all but we were going to be alight for the most part. Now, if our economy does not get fixed 95% of us are really stand to be in deep s***. If we don't patch up our relations with countries, especially in the middle east, the September 11th attacks could just be the beginning.

The last 6 years have seen unprecedented spending by both the federal government and its citizens, horrible foreign policy decisions and just an overall loss in our standing as the #1 country in the world.

When you couple this with the fact that either party will make history (first African American president or first woman as vice president) when voted into office; this is what makes this election so special. Either candidate will have more then 4 years worth of work on the first day of their presidency. Either candidate will be remembered as the one that brought our country out of its biggest hole yet, or the candidate that dug us deeper in that hole.

As we head to the polls this year lets remember some key things. These two candidates are both great men. They have both worked their entire lives to protect and serve our country as best they know how. Even though they will go about it in different ways, both candidates believe they have the country's best interests at heart. I don't know if you can say that about our current administration but my gut feeling is that you can say that about the next one.

I have my opinions as I am sure you all have yours. Let us all try to keep our eyes, ears and mouths on the task at hand, working together to bring this country back to life. As much as I disagree with some of the choices made on our behalf in Washington, I am fortunate to be an American. I have the opportunity, the right, to share my thoughts and feelings with millions of people all over the world and that is more then many can say.

Colin Powell's Interview On Meet The Press

The Really: Please watch and tell us if you can really disagree with anything retired General Colin Powell said in his interview this morning on Meet The Press.

The Interview:

Obama Gains 30 Years Foreign Policy Experience In 5 Minutes

YO! I'M OVER HERE

The Really: We all woke up this morning because Colin Powell really wanted to tell us something important.

The former Secretary of State for the first George W. Bush administration announced today that he will crossing party lines and voting for Senator Barack Obama in 16 days. Colin Powell stated that Obama "is a transformational figure" and has the "ability to inspire". Powell expressed his disappointment with the republican ticket because of what he viewed as a negative turn in John McCain's campaign.

This has to come as a major blow to the republican ticket. I don't think they actually thought that Colin Powell was going to support them, however, I have a feeling they would of rather him just say nothing because many folks, namely republicans, respect and listen to what Colin Powell has to say. It should be interesting to watch the polls this week to see how much of an impact Powell's statement has.

The only sad or negative side to this I see is that I am 100% sure you will hear something from someone about how Colin Powell did this because it is a face issue. That will just go to show us how far this country has not come and how far we still have to go.

The Reverse Bradley Effect

The Really: Republicans secretly going to vote for Obama?

My 85 year old mother just told me she early voted for "that one." Not unexpected since she almost always votes Democratic but she very much wanted to vote for Hillary. She was upset that she may never get a chance to vote for a woman for President in her lifetime. But she seemed very comfortable with her vote.

But if a pollster had asked her who she was going to vote for, she might have said undecided. There was nothing undecided about it.

Obama And McCain Jib and Jab At 4 Million Dollar Dinner

The Really: Barack Obama took some long overdue shots at John McCain and his short comings. They were really funny too...

When I heard John and Barack lambaste one another all in the name of fun last night hopefully I was not the only one that got some much needed relief from the regular stump speeches. What I find really funny is that each candidate were able to make some major digs at one another as well as themselves. From Mad Magazine ears to jokes about McCain knowing people during the prohibition, the jokes just didn't stop. I thought the slams were fairly delivered and I also think that the writers of the humor (certainly not McCain or Obama) did some of the best work that either of the two candidates have read to a crowd in 12 months.

McCain presented first and came out swinging with Obama following up and delivering a flurry of shots that he had not delivered personally yet. This was the time and the place for Barack Obama to bring some issues such as age to light. Whether you like him or not, Obama has withstood pot shot after pot shot from both McCain and Palin directly. While Obama's campaign has certainly fought back and taken their share of opportunities to expose McCain's flaws; Obama has never really delivered any punches with the gloves off until last night.

Overall, I thought last night was a good night off from serious politics and stupid campaign tricks. I am still watching some of the clips because they were REALLY that funny. Enjoy!